81 million Biden voters are seething with anger--the burden of 'healing' is on Republicans

[ancianita]

22. There are reasons for that. One thing about healing...

just because Biden talked about it in every speech doesn't put the onus of healing just on Democrats.

When Biden mentions healing it's aspirational. He'll hint at what healing is, as in 'come together' unity.

But note that he doesn't define how healing is done.
(We Democrats rightly claim that how healing is done isn't on Democrats alone, since we all know we've always done our part through mopping up and restorative legislating).

The anger Democrats feel isn't about unity or healing, it's about how it's done and who's responsible for it.

So one idea is this:
Since Democrats have so much rebuilding to do, the least that Repubs can do is empty out of their politics what doesn't get good results for the whole country -- like making their platform a series of goals and not a person, for starters. So far, nothing we've heard from them justifies our reaching out to hold up their crippled party. Nothing.

Another idea is that any general healing of their political relationship to Democrats is solely on Democrats' terms. We're fair and fact-based. If they can be fair and fact-based, not try for "both sides" false equivalencies, not look outside to fault find, but genuinely look inside and work constructively within their own side, we can talk.

Democrats' form of healing is doing. If Repubs can join with a can-do spirit, get things done, they'll find that that heals them and the country, and builds unity. They might just heal if they'd stop confusing the medicine with the disease.

They can learn from our example, try it out, and heal.

One last idea for healing for been-there-done-that Democrats:

Democrats need to tell media to just shut up, stop second guessing our leadership, just constructively watch and constructively report.

We don't have to listen or answer to any more cranked out media hype telling Democrats what to do. Media have been nothing but a drag on our party, and if they don't constructively change away from conflict-driven reporting, we have to leave them behind.